Facebook and learning Wordpress
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matgbTwo things. Livejournal this week launched their new ESN system. I love it, I can track comments on interesting posts, and getting everyones new userpics in one little bit of the site is just cool. That's not the topic. When Brad launched it, he described it as "non-stalkery", and I agre, it's not. On that discussion (in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news here), many people commented that this was good, and compared it favourably to the new Facebook stalking features. Now, I don't use Facebook, it's only available to students, and, well, much as I'd like to be again, a) I'm now working and have no money and b) they wouldn't take me back in. So what, why do I care?
Well, because people can at times be stupid. Y'see, the new, controversial, Facebook features? Don't tell you any information you couldn't already find out, and could be switched off anyway. If you're on Facebook, or know someone who is, spread this link around, as those making a fuss seem, on what I've read, to need a great big slap for not actually getting what public, private and "social network" actually mean.
Second point. I'm playing around with a WordPress install on Voting TaKtiX. Ye gods it's good. So very very good. It's so much easier to use than Blogger and LJ. Importing all my old posts from NLE was so easy. Wait, I said my old posts. It even managed to recognise Paul as a user, and set him up as one, automatically, without me telling it to. Now all I need to do do is figure out how to style it (there are some good features on The Slant that I like the look of), go through the archives and categorise every post of note, get everyone linking to NLE to update their blogroll, shut down NLE formally and invite the other new authors in. All I need to do. That's about a months worth of spare time all on its own. Why didn't I do this a month ago?
Oh, because I thought installing software on my webserver would be difficult. D'oh!
news here), many people commented that this was good, and compared it favourably to the new Facebook stalking features. Now, I don't use Facebook, it's only available to students, and, well, much as I'd like to be again, a) I'm now working and have no money and b) they wouldn't take me back in. So what, why do I care?Well, because people can at times be stupid. Y'see, the new, controversial, Facebook features? Don't tell you any information you couldn't already find out, and could be switched off anyway. If you're on Facebook, or know someone who is, spread this link around, as those making a fuss seem, on what I've read, to need a great big slap for not actually getting what public, private and "social network" actually mean.
The utter cretin’s guide to privacy on Facebook
Second point. I'm playing around with a WordPress install on Voting TaKtiX. Ye gods it's good. So very very good. It's so much easier to use than Blogger and LJ. Importing all my old posts from NLE was so easy. Wait, I said my old posts. It even managed to recognise Paul as a user, and set him up as one, automatically, without me telling it to. Now all I need to do do is figure out how to style it (there are some good features on The Slant that I like the look of), go through the archives and categorise every post of note, get everyone linking to NLE to update their blogroll, shut down NLE formally and invite the other new authors in. All I need to do. That's about a months worth of spare time all on its own. Why didn't I do this a month ago?
Oh, because I thought installing software on my webserver would be difficult. D'oh!
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Date: 2006-Sep-10, Sunday 21:49 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-Sep-10, Sunday 22:01 (UTC)With an LJ, you just need someone to say "X has now got a journal" and everyone that knows X friends them.
Still playing around with the basics, but the admin panel and the ease of plugins is so cool. Not sure about "the best", I'm thinking Firefox currently still winning, but it may be a little chicken/egg.
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Date: 2006-Sep-10, Sunday 22:45 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-Sep-10, Sunday 23:20 (UTC)Thing is, it puts all the linklist into one place, the default theme puts them into their categories, so I switched back so I could see where I'd put them, I'll fix it later, I've got bored linklisting now...
I don't like green on sites, don't think I ever have, no idea why, it took some effort to learn how to get rid of it on NLE effectively.
The question I really need to work out is how Fx specific do I make it, because I could make it look really gorgeous in FX, but it'd end up ugly in IE (including IE7). NLE readership is 50/50, and the "opinion former" journalist types tend to be on IE I've noticed...
If you're blogging to try and get ideas in the media (which I am, really), then making sure the journos can read it makes sense.
BTW, you've got too many plugins; which one displays the 'recent comments' box? You seem to have 3 different ones listed, I've found the favatar one, I'll upload it later in the week.
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Date: 2006-Sep-11, Monday 00:41 (UTC)The truth is, I don't think I'm even sure myself! (That's why I don't deactivate plugins I'm not using, because then I'll find out that I was using them and I've just broken my blog.)
The yellow box one is recent comments (http://mtdewvirus.com/code/). The list underneath that is definitely <a href="http://meidell.dk/archives/category/wordpress/latest-comments/2>Brian's Latest Comments</a>.
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Date: 2006-Sep-11, Monday 20:40 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-Sep-11, Monday 09:31 (UTC)RJ